decarbonisation

Agilitas has committed to the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative and had its initial targets for its portfolio companies validated in September, according to ESG transformation specialist Alison Prout.

Our Agenda 2025 series shows that private markets firms are making meaningful progress on portfolio decarbonisation.

Among various climate-related initatives, the firm is aiming to develop an avoided emissions methodology, says head of ESG Adinah Shackleton.

Investors believe the market is starting to account for capital spent on decarbonising assets, but the data seems hard to come by, according to speakers at the Women in Private Markets Summit in London this week.

Current approaches to energy efficiency are ignoring the most carbon-intensive area of data centre operations, according to the environment-focused manager.

Property finance was on the agenda during week one of the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention.

Working out how much of a portfolio qualifies as being climate solutions involves as much debate as science, said Church Commissioners' Sofia Bartholdy at the Responsible Investment Forum: Europe this week.

The guidance, which provides a common language for fund managers’ decarbonisation progress, will be a topic of discussion at PEI's Responsible Investment Forum in London this week.

Ecore, which turns used tires into rubber surfacing and flooring, has received a minority investment from GA's BeyondNetZero fund.

The proposal would place major challenges on the three pension funds, which have been regular investors in funds managed by Brookfield, KKR, Stonepeak and BlackRock.